These are the three quadrants of time for living a balanced life: Prep time/ Prime time and Play Time.
-Prep Time is time used to: plan/ prepare/ organize/ clean, etc…
-Prime Time is time to do your work.
-Play Time is time to: rest, relax, rejuvenate, do a hobby, go on a vacation, etc…
When you are able to go about your life with some relative balance within the three quadrants of time, you are able to create ease, efficiency, and guilt-free fun in your life.
Look at your weekly calendar. Every week should be well balanced with adequate Prep time, Prime time, and Play time. You deserve it! – and don’t fall into the trap that you don’t have the time to plan it all out! Guess what - You will never have the time unless you take the time to plan and carve out your day, your week, your month, and your year. You get to determine your schedule and if you don’t – your life will be run by outside events and circumstances.
Another challenge:
Learn to love what you do and if that’s not possible find another job – have your vocation be your avocation. Then everything you do – be it Prep/ Prime/or Play time will all align and unify – creating for you an overall better, and ultimately longer life!
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Friday, December 18, 2009
Letter to the editor on August 29, 2009 in a Jackson, MS newspaper.
Take a moment to read and digest this!
Dear Sirs:
During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care?
Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture- a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks, "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".
Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow.
Don’t you agree?
STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson, MS
Dear Sirs:
During my last night's shift in the ER, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient with a shiny new gold tooth, multiple elaborate tattoos, a very expensive brand of tennis shoes and a new cellular telephone equipped with her favorite R&B tune for a ringtone. Glancing over the chart, one could not help noticing her payer status: Medicaid. She smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and, somehow, still has money to buy beer.
And our Congress expects me to pay for this woman's health care?
Our nation's health care crisis is not a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors or nurses. It is a crisis of culture- a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. A culture that thinks, "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".
Life is really not that hard. Most of us reap what we sow.
Don’t you agree?
STARNER JONES, MD
Jackson, MS
Friday, December 11, 2009
Within every misFORTUNE is a hidden FORTUNE!
Our son Jack, playing with one of his cars at a restaurant drops it between the booth and the brick wall. Aarrrgh!! “Car, car?” Jack says frantically. Our daughter, Norah, reached down struggling to grasp Jack’s car. Samantha, my wife, saw her grabbing what she thought was a piece of trash and low and behold she came up with a $10.00 bill! Then we were able to take the seat off the bench and wallah – the car was rescued & Jack was happy, as we all were realizing within this apparent misfortune, there was a FORTUNE!
An email I read described a gentleman driving home from work on Colorado Boulevard in Denver. His car died – completely out of the blue – and he was able to coast into a gas station. He got out of his car frustrated and saw a woman crying while scrambling to see how much money she had to gas up her suburban full of children. He approached the woman to see if she was okay. She said her boyfriend had left her, and she packed her children and everything they had into the Suburban and were driving to her parents in California (of which she had not spoken to in 5 years). The gentleman swiped his card to fill up her car and went inside buying all the kids food from McDonalds. The woman was so grateful and asked if he was an angel. He smiled and turned to his car, realizing what a blessing it was to have his car quit giving him the opportunity to help out a family. He sat in his car and it started right up! A FORTUNE in an apparent misfortune.
Lastly, one of our patients, previously turned off by chiropractors had 9 weeks of suffering from vertigo. Cat scans & MRI’s at the hospital revealed nothing. A reluctant husband said, you’ve tried everything, I guess it’s time to try chiropractic. After one adjustment, crawling around was no longer the means of movement – this woman could walk! Her vertigo subsided significantly and now she and her husband enjoy the benefits of wellness chiropractic care. A FORTUNE in health all brought about by an apparent misfortune.
An email I read described a gentleman driving home from work on Colorado Boulevard in Denver. His car died – completely out of the blue – and he was able to coast into a gas station. He got out of his car frustrated and saw a woman crying while scrambling to see how much money she had to gas up her suburban full of children. He approached the woman to see if she was okay. She said her boyfriend had left her, and she packed her children and everything they had into the Suburban and were driving to her parents in California (of which she had not spoken to in 5 years). The gentleman swiped his card to fill up her car and went inside buying all the kids food from McDonalds. The woman was so grateful and asked if he was an angel. He smiled and turned to his car, realizing what a blessing it was to have his car quit giving him the opportunity to help out a family. He sat in his car and it started right up! A FORTUNE in an apparent misfortune.
Lastly, one of our patients, previously turned off by chiropractors had 9 weeks of suffering from vertigo. Cat scans & MRI’s at the hospital revealed nothing. A reluctant husband said, you’ve tried everything, I guess it’s time to try chiropractic. After one adjustment, crawling around was no longer the means of movement – this woman could walk! Her vertigo subsided significantly and now she and her husband enjoy the benefits of wellness chiropractic care. A FORTUNE in health all brought about by an apparent misfortune.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Challenges Birth a New Perspective
Gaining perspective in your life is sometimes best achieved during the most difficult challenges you encounter. Perspective gives us the opportunity to re-adjust our compass setting (life’s direction) or create a compass setting for that matter. It gives you the opportunity to re-visit your dreams and where you are headed in your life and which direction you’d like to go or take time to think about what your dreams and desires are. In hindsight, I am sure that you will find that some of the most trying times you’ve been through have produced some of the most positive results in your life. Experiences where you had an illness, excruciating pain, the loss of a loved one… as time goes by and the suffering and grief lifts, you naturally and most of the time unconsciously chart a course for your greater good.
I don’t know of one individual or family that has not felt the effects of the economy this year on some level. I don’t know of one individual that has not had the benefit of experiencing a tough time in their life in whatever realm it may have been. But I do know – everyone is a better person because of it. So it’s time to celebrate the “tough times!”
Now don’t go looking for “tough times,” in hopes for something better. Instead work on re-evaluating where you are at in your life and what direction you are heading. Ask yourself the question: “Am what I am doing today, going to lead me to a more fruitful future?” Know that what you sow, you reap – and know that in knowing all of this, it will allow you to forge through the “tough times,” with a little more grace and perseverance!
I don’t know of one individual or family that has not felt the effects of the economy this year on some level. I don’t know of one individual that has not had the benefit of experiencing a tough time in their life in whatever realm it may have been. But I do know – everyone is a better person because of it. So it’s time to celebrate the “tough times!”
Now don’t go looking for “tough times,” in hopes for something better. Instead work on re-evaluating where you are at in your life and what direction you are heading. Ask yourself the question: “Am what I am doing today, going to lead me to a more fruitful future?” Know that what you sow, you reap – and know that in knowing all of this, it will allow you to forge through the “tough times,” with a little more grace and perseverance!
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